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Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

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Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

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Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

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I'm here to talk to you about Intarsia. Intarsia is a three-dimensional wood working art form. It uses all different sizes, depths of wood. Now, I’ll need to fit together just like a puzzle, smaller pieces like in here in the wings right where these tails connect, where the wood connects to the bird, where the pine cones appear on the top connecting to the bow can be very tough things when you're transferring a paper pattern to the wood. Here, I have a big pattern. I’ve kept one copy so I know where all these pieces go. I’ve also cut them into smaller pieces and put them with their like parts and colors that I want to use whether it’s a light piece of wood, a dark piece of wood or somewhere in between. What I'm going to show you today is how to put this pattern directly to the piece of wood.

One way would be to trace it. Tracing the line from one piece of wood to the next piece of wood can help you to wonder outside of it and when you cut that same line on different pieces of wood, they may not fit together so well. So, its very definitely not your best choice. The second choice would be to spray adhesive directly onto your wood piece and then put the pattern on top of that. That’s an okay choice but it’s very time consuming to take that pattern back off. The third way would be to take a piece of contact paper just like you’d use for shelving in your cabinets and spray it with some contact adhesive and put your pattern to that. You want to spray on the clear side so that you can take the back side off and still be able to see where you are. I’m actually going to take a scissor and cut around this, so it’s a little bit smaller and easier to deal with.

It peels off real easy from the back. Now, it gives you a couple of nice things. You can place it, you can see the arrow on my pattern, you can place a direction with your wood. I’ve got some color variation that I’d like to highlight. So, I'm going to take my pattern and light it so it’s partially on and partially off. If I wanted to have it darker or use a different piece of the wood, I can easily take my pattern piece, get some different color easily done. This is the best way that I found to stick a pattern on an Intarsia project.

Wood Workers Guild of America provides the highest-quality woodworking instructional videos, tips and techniques and a place where woodworkers can come together-- whether new hobbyists or seasoned professionals, to exchange ideas and experiences. The ultimate outcome - to keep YOU busy in the shop!